This is part 3 of 3. Part 1: The Functional Organization Part 2: The Leadership Model Deciding how to organize areas of expertise to best enable collaboration and rapid decision-making has been an important responsibility of the CEO. The adjustments Tim Cook has implemented in recent years include dividing the hardware function into hardware engineering […]
MORE ...This is part 2 of 3. Part 1: The Functional Organization Part 3: Leadership at Scale Ever since Steve Jobs implemented the functional organization, Apple’s managers at every level, from the senior vice president on down, have been expected to possess three key leadership characteristics: deep expertise that allows them to meaningfully engage in all […]
MORE ...This is part 1 of 3. Part 2: The Leadership Model Part 3: Leadership at Scale Adopting a functional structure may have been unsurprising for a company of Apple’s size at the time. What is surprising—in fact, remarkable—is that Apple retains it today, even though the company is nearly 40 times as large in terms […]
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